Very confrontational: Plastic Overshoot Day
Earth Overshoot Day is the day the world has used up the resources for that year. There is also a Plastic Overshoot Day.
Earth Overshoot Day is the day the world has used up the resources for that year. There is also a Plastic Overshoot Day.
Chicken eggs in low-income countries contain extremely high levels of dioxin in places where imported plastic from the West is burned.
If the environment of species changes too fast, they are not able to adept. See turtles are facing several evolutionary traps.
The 2015 United Nations Global Sustainability Goals do not include the plastic soup. This oversight has significant implications.
All efforts to keep plastic out of the environment can be undone by natural disasters such as tsunamis and rainstorms. This is exceptionally bad news for the plastic soup.
There is growing support for an international plastics treaty. The question is now not if there will be one, but what agreements will it contain.
UV-328 is a toxic substance that the plastic industry often uses. A proposal to ban this substance under the Stockholm Convention is being challenged by industry.
Plastic Soup Foundation demands a response from Chemelot and explores options to take steps against proposed dumping.
It is still not possible to order plastic free Amazon products. The online shopping giant refuses to make its plastic consumption public and is a large contributor to the plastic soup.
The European Commission has compiled the Single Use Plastics Directive to reduce the amount of plastic in the sea.
By the end of this year, there should be a global plastic treaty that will stop plastic pollution of our planet. To achieve this, the United Nations environment department is organising the Intergovernmental Negotiation Committee on Plastic Pollution negotiations. The 4th round, INC4, took place in Ottawa Canada. The new plastics treaty is considered one of the most important environmental agreements made since the Paris climate accords in 2015. The stakes are high and that was evident in Ottawa.
Eighty-five per cent of citizens want single-use plastic packaging to disappear completely. This is according to new research by Ipsos commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Plastic Free Foundation. Entrepreneurs who abandon packaging or make it more sustainable seem to have tapped into a goldmine – but part of the business community is still deaf and dumb. ‘People are getting fed up with all the plastic in the supermarket.’
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